Facebook bans white nationalism and white separatism
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Facebook is banning white nationalism and white separatism from its platform, the Mark Zuckerberg-led company announced on Wednesday.
The tech giant will start enforcing the new policy, which also includes Instagram, next week, saying that the praise, support and representation of white nationalism and white separatism are strongly linked to organized hate groups and have “no place” on its services that are used by billions worldwide.
The social network explained that it originally did not apply the same rationale it uses to prohibit white supremacy because it was thinking about broader ideas of nationalism and separatism — for example, pride in America or Basque separatism.
“Going forward, while people will still be able to demonstrate pride in their ethnic heritage, we will not tolerate praise or support for white nationalism or separatism,” the company said.
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